Evidence for Racial Prejudice at the Implicit Level and Its Relationship with Questionnaire Measures

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 262-274

  Wittenbrink, Bernd ^a   Judd, Charles M ^b   Park, Bernadette ^b  

^a C74 Harper Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AWARENESS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; RACE RELATIONS; STEREOTYPING; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 0031067645     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.2.262     Document Type: Article

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